20 research outputs found
Follow-up analyses of the binary-neutron-star signals GW170817 and GW190425 by using post-Newtonian waveform models
We reanalyze the binary-neutron-star signals, GW170817 and GW190425, focusing
on the inspiral regime to avoid uncertainties on waveform modeling in the
postinspiral regime. We use post-Newtonian waveform models as templates, which
are theoretically rigid and efficiently describe the inspiral regime. We study
potential systematic difference in estimates of the binary tidal deformability
by using different descriptions for the point-particle
dynamics and tidal effects. We find that the estimates of
show no significant systematic difference among three models for the
point-particle parts: TF2, TF2g, and TF2+, when they employ the same tidal
model. We compare different tidal descriptions given by different
post-Newtonian orders in the tidal phase. Our results indicate that the
estimates of slightly depend on the post-Newtonian order in
the tidal phase and an increase in the tidal post-Newtonian order does not lead
to a monotonic change in the estimate of . We also compare the
estimate of obtained by the post-Newtonian tidal model and
numerical-relativity calibrated tidal models. We find that the post-Newtonian
model gives slightly larger estimate of and wider posterior
distribution than the numerical-relativity calibrated models. According to
Bayesian model comparison, it is difficult to identify a preference among the
post-Newtonian orders by relying on the GW170817 and GW190425 data. Our results
indicate no preference among numerical-relativity calibrated tidal models over
the post-Newtonian model. Additionally, we present constraints on
equation-of-state models for neutron stars with the post-Newtonian model, which
show that the GW170817 data disfavor less compact models, though they are
slightly weaker constraints than the numerical-relativity calibrated tidal
models.Comment: 18 pages, 9 figures, Accepted for publication in Physical Review
Searching for gravitational wave echoes from black hole binary events in the third observing run of LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA collaborations
Gravitational wave echo signals have been proposed as evidence for the
modification of the spacetime structure near the classical event horizon. These
signals are expected to occur after the mergers of compact binaries as a
sequence of weak pulse-like signals. Some studies have shown evidence of the
echo signals from several binary black hole merger events. On the other hand,
the other studies have shown the low significance of such signals from various
events in the first, second and third observing runs (O1, O2 and O3). Our
previous study also shows the low significance of echo signals from events in
O1 and O2, though, we observe that more than half of the events have p-value
smaller than 0.1 when the simply modeled waveform is used for the analysis.
Since there are only nine events appropriate for this analysis in O1 and O2, it
is necessary to analyze more events to evaluate the significance statistically.
In this study, we search for echo signals from binary black hole events
observed during O3 operated by LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA collaborations. We perform
the template-based search by using two different models for echo signal
templates: simply modeled one and physically motivated one. Our results show
that the distributions of p-values for all events analyzed in this study are
consistent with the noise distribution. This means that no significant echo
signals are found for both models from O3 events.Comment: 11 page
Discrepancy in tidal deformability of GW170817 between the Advanced LIGO twin detectors
We find that the Hanford and Livingston detectors of Advanced LIGO derive a
distinct posterior probability distribution of binary tidal deformability
tilde{Lambda} of the first binary-neutron-star merger GW170817. By analyzing
public data of GW170817 with a nested-sampling engine and the default TaylorF2
waveform provided by the LALInference package, the probability distribution of
the binary tidal deformability derived by the LIGO-Virgo detector network turns
out to be determined dominantly by the Hanford detector. Specifically, by
imposing the flat prior on tidal deformability of individual stars, symmetric
90% credible intervals of tilde{Lambda} are estimated to be 527^{+619}_{-345}
with the Hanford detector, 927^{+522}_{-619} with the Livingston detector, and
455^{+668}_{-281} with the LIGO-Virgo detector network. Furthermore, the
distribution derived by the Livingston detector changes irregularly when we
vary the maximum frequency of the data used in the analysis. This feature is
not observed for the Hanford detector. While they are all consistent, the
discrepancy and irregular behavior suggest that an in-depth study of noise
properties might improve our understanding of GW170817 and future events.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, matched to the published versio